sandy hit us very hard. it was a storm of historic insurance tense tee, but new yorkers are resilient and we have seen an enormous outpour of support eager to volunteer, doe in it and help out. we have a plan for recovery, and that recovery is already beginning, i'm happy to say, it's the beginning of a process that we all know will take a while, but this is the end of the downside, and hopefully from here is going up. martha: it is going up. good news from mayor bloomberg. david lee miller joins us live from one of those subway stations in lower manhattan with recovery operations that he says are underway. what are you seeing there, david lee? >> i'm seeing a lot of worried mta workers. take a lock over my shoulder, this is the south ferry subway station, martha. it is in the southernmost tip of manhattan. it is as you can clearly seaboarded up. you can see the caution tape and sandbags. what you can't see right down that escalator, i walked down there a few moments ago, there is 50 feet, five-oh of water i